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January 7, 2020

A New Year’s Resolution: To Help Your Child Succeed in School

Helping a child to succeed and to cope with failure

The first documented New Year’s Resolutions are attributed to the Babylonians, whose culture dates back thousands of years. It was an idea that has withstood the test of time, but — as Hamlet observed — it’s a custom more often honored in the breach than in the observance. Here’s one to consider, nevertheless, courtesy of […]

Article by Ken Furtado / Parenting, Study Skills, Value of Tutoring / kids and technology, learning, morris-tutoring, phoenix tutoring, social media, succeed in school, technology

November 19, 2019

2019: International Year of the Periodic Table

Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table

Elegant and seductive, the periodic table may be the bane of chemistry students everywhere. Impeccably organized, it lists all the known elements in order of increasing atomic number. At the same time, it fiendishly — as any high school chemistry student will attest — arranges them in rows and columns that emphasize common structures and […]

Article by Ken Furtado / Science, Technology / chemistry, kids and technology, periodictable, phoenix tutoring, STEAM, STEM, technology

June 10, 2019

STEM (not part of a plant)

STEM is an acronym for the academic disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Largely replacing the “Three R’s,” its origin dates to 1991, when the Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education launched a program for students in Washington, DC. Ten years later, the term achieved permanence when it was […]

Article by Ken Furtado / Academic Readiness, Culture Wars, Mathematics, Science / educaton, math, science, STEAM, STEM, technology Leave a Comment

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